the beat starts with ari melber. has it ever happened to you a tickle in your throat? i was going to say, real quick, do you want a lozenge? i just chewed one. my dentist will be so mad. i don t know if i should share this but i used to do a show on msnbc, and one of my coanchors would get on me about putting the cough drop on the paper in the commercial and then back and forth. i was like, i m going to conserve it. it was here a second ago. i chewed it up to clean up for you. america appreciates your voice, i think, so let s keep it. thanks, ari. have a great show. nice to see you, nicolle. you re welcome. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. notwithstanding our voices and whether we keep them or lose them, i can tell you i m going to use my voice to tell you about two legaling aments surrounding president trump. we can tell you the wall street journal and cnn are reporting that trump s chief of staff mark meadows has been officially subpoenaed by spec
than anybody in what she she has will be justice. there s a report coming out today, release in the part. we re learning things like they spoke with 75 witnesses. the reports do not tell us the underlying testimony. boy, would we like that, but the 75 gives you a sense of the scope, and we know who some of them are, senator lindsey graham who tried to get out of it, rudy giuliani who had his law license suspended, john eastman, mike flynn and others. as for the subpoena for mike meadows, he was already ordered to testify in this georgia case, but we don t know if he came in. another big development in today s report released the grand jury thinks the people were lying under oath. let me tell you why that matters. number one, anyone committing the crime of lying under oath must be worry about shielding some greater crime, or they would have to be really, really, well, dumb, and not listen to